Lenovo will continue to destroy all advantages of ThinkPad design.
They do it one by one:
Btw, Ideapad brand will be destroyed as complete failure. And ThinkPad will be widened to try to sell all their crap.
My IBM 600e looks like something made by alients compared to my modern ThinkPad.
More money that they alll put to waste
Lenovo Group announced Group revenue in the first quarter of US $13.3 billion, up almost 7% year-on-year (up 10% year-on-year excluding currency impact). Pre-tax income grew 38% compared to the same quarter a year earlier, to US $332 million, while net income also increased by 31% year-on-year to US$213 million. Basic earnings per share for the first quarter were 1.80 US cents or 13.95 HK cents.
"Our outstanding performance last quarter proves that Lenovo has quickly regained momentum from the impact of the pandemic and is capturing the new opportunities emerging from remote working, education and accelerated digitalization," said Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo Chairman and CEO. "While the world continues to face challenges, Lenovo is focused on delivering sustainable growth through our core businesses as well as the new services and solutions opportunities presented by our service-led intelligent transformation."
It has nothing with smart managers - but more of corporations buying big stock of notebooks for workers to work at home. Plus small business got lot fo them in retail.
Remember - people are brainwashed to buy almost unserviceable modern notebooks, instead of proper desktops.
On why keyboards had been not flexible (Thinkpad 600-600e, best ever Thinkpad keyboards)
Notice how below keyboard it is not just empty space like on modern laptops
Palmrest
Center of keyboard is braced in 3 points and palmrest has super hard magnesium frame below it.
Thinkpad T60 photos, hard computer porno
From https://www.retropcmania.com/2015/05/the-naked-truth-about-thinkpad.html
Small list of IBM/Lenovo "achievements" concerning Thinkpads
Keyboards
Note that all that they made was to appeal to lovers of thinner laptop. They gained around 150g here by making is less durable and flexy, also gained 2-3mm of thickness.
Most of last chiclet keyboards can survive water spill and not let water in, but they are not made to withstand it more than once or twice. Contrary to classic keyboard with water drain holes.
Water drain had been eliminated at almost all models as authors of actual platforms (Taiwanese firms) wanted to simplify MB designs and get more profit (around $2 more for $1500 machine).
CPUs
All this to make laptops thinner and lighter. They gained around 100-150g out of this all, seriously.
Removing socket get you around 2-3mm, but not always, sometime it gives you none.
Also from simple $0 CPU swap work and CPU you can buy you now need to go to advanced repair center who will charge $50-250 for work only and most probably will install used CPU (as Intel do not sell them anymore, except few last authorized centers).
Batteries
Managers tend to not know the real market needs (I talked with too many of them to know) and tend to copy other big players, as it is safe move, you can't be blamed for any original idea.
And companies really hate external or even just easy to replace batteries, really. As far as I know lot of Lenovo good progress in double battery department had been forced by some old engineers and big pressure of few large corporations who just demanded this.
Again Thunderbolt, reminder for used buyers
Be VERY CAREFUL if you consider buying a (new or second hand) *80 generation (and many others)
Lenovo acknowledges that there is a big problem on the *80 generation (and others) with Thunderbolt port failing "after 6 to 12 months of typical usage" (it is all over the internet).
My personnal (1850$ CAN at the time) T480S is affected: no more Thunderbolt, no more USB-C connection and (worst of all) USB-C Power Delivery limited to 15 watts - so my battery is DISCHARGING WHILE PLUGGED when doing any light CPU task (heck, even using Skype depletes the battery).
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/es5vt4/be_very_careful_if_you_consider_buying_a_new_or/
Lenovo ThinkPad T14, almost dead main line
Specs
Thinkpad T14s, thinner and worse
Note gradual killing of famous external batteries of Txxs lineup (they had same attempt with T460s, but reverted).
Killing of proper trackpad buttons, replacing them with flat designers shite.
I am not even talking about gradual keyboards degradation.
And it is all for idea to make thing thinner and much less durable.
Now just try to follow Apple, even with names (it is Chinese naming)
Why people are doing this? I mean Lenovo and keyboards.
Well, simple. Young people who are former students and managers are unable to understand complexity and efforts of the design, and few older guys who are still around know that fighting will cost them their job, as opposition just have much more stupid people with lot of free time.
Major issue with Thunderbolt, say thanks for Lenovo managers qualification
Current theories are that the old firmware was causing unnecessary writes to the chip that stores the Thunderbolt controller firmware, causing wear over time. Over the course of a year or so, depending on how much is being written to the chip, the chip may start to bad and the firmware could corrupt. It's still unclear if this is the reason for the failure or not, but it seems to be the most likely reason.
They still want to do their concept
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold
New Lenovo keyboard
Cost is $100 and it is wireless.
So, instead of getting much superb Thinkpad layout they just used exact new shitty keys.
The Chinese entrepreneur Liu Chuanzhi, 75, announced his retirement as chairman of Legend Holdings on Wednesday.
Liu is well-known for founding Lenovo in 1984. In the past 35 years, the company acquired IBM's PC business in 2004 to gradually become the world's largest PC maker, and bought cellphone brand Motorola from Google in 2014, and then it went public on Hong Kong stock market in 2015.
Motorola brand is not defunct.
And Thinkpad brand now means almost nothing, except premium price. Frequently it is even designed and assembled by exactly same firms who assemble cheap HD and Dell notes.
Lenovo management wants to return to old naming ala ThinkPad T14 и X13.
They hope it'll allow to use some of the old glory and make people forget issues with modern new models.
They still want to make foldable thing with touchscreen keyboard
Best engineers are working in Lenovo (and it is bad for ya!)
New motto:
Let's sale you more crap that will barely make it till warranty end, while talking about being nature friendly
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!